Roundtable discussions for the University of Hawaiʻi Faculty of African Descent’s Third Biennial Winter Institute for Black Studies are free and open to the public 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2009 at the Hawaiʻi Imin Conference Center adjacent to the UH Mānoa campus.

The deadline is Jan. 8 for paid registration to attend the opening reception with Rutgers University historian Kim D. Butler on Jan. 15 at the Ala Moana Hotel and breakfast and luncheon programs Jan. 16 at the Imin Center.